Dilating (expanding) blood vessels in your head are—at least in part—responsible for triggering headache pain. Caffeine is a natural vasoconstrictor. It shrinks your arteries back down, helping relieve the stabbing and throbbing.…
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You probably already know that getting too little sleep is bad news for your waistline, but a BYU study of over 300 women found it’s not just the amount of sleep that…
It’s often difficult to discern what a serving size really looks like. A recent study found that when cereal flakes were crushed up, people poured more into their bowls (by weight), because it didn’t…
Researchers at the University of Colorado surveyed 1,077 Facebook users to determine who people unfriend the most and how it makes un-friendees feel. “The most common reason for unfriending someone from high school…
Full, rosy lips are associated with high levels of estrogen, which decreases with age, meaning that lips become thinner and paler as you get older. And this is why lip gloss was…
Researchers conducted fitness tests on 2,747 20-somethings, making them run on a treadmill until they couldn’t keep up. When the participants were between the ages of 43 and 55, they all took…
In a recent study, researchers measured the level of the stress hormone cortisol in participants while they underwent interviews and did math problems in their heads. Ninety-five percent showed cortisol spikes. No…
An analysis of 39 trials and studies published since 1900 found that eating a vegetarian diet lowered people’s average systolic and diastolic blood pressure numbers, compared to eating an omnivorous one. But…
You would never even think about using a password such as “iloveyou.” Or settle on a password such as “123456” or “default” or “hello.” Yet these are just a few of the…
Another win for green tea: It helps you age better! In a study of nearly 14,000 elderly, green tea drinkers functioned well in old age, and had fewer problems with basic everyday…